* While doing a little reading on the Italdesign Aztec we featured as a Hemmings Find of the Day earlier this week, we came across Italdesign’s intriguing site with photos and information on many of its other concept vehicles through the decades, including the 1969 Alfa Romeo Iguana above.

* How cool was it that there were a bunch of International Harvester Scouts in the recent Fast Five? Oh, you didn’t see them? That’s because they got scrubbed from the film, but not until after they were built for filming. Edmunds Inside Line has more on them. (via)

The gold and black color scheme for Alan Bean’s Corvettes were designed by the same man who styled the 1948 Tucker – Alex Tremulis! In 1967 Tremulis was designing for a gyroscopically stabilized car company called Gyro Transport Systems. Astronaut Tom Stafford was on the Board of Directors. They had built a prototype gyro-stabilized car, the Gyro-X (link: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2010/10/09/four-links-turbine-car-brochure-bowlmor-cadillac-h-mod-reunion-1949-ford-intro/ ) that worked so well Alex and the gang were invited to view several Apollo launches. Over cocktails at one of the launches Tremulis met Bean and the two discussed having Tremulis design the color schemes for their Corvettes. The final design was a combination of two of these submittals. They turned out to be one of the most iconic paint schemes for the Corvettes. The red, white and blue logo on the Corvettes was lifted directly from Tremulis’ 1966 land speed record motorcycle, the Gyronaut X-1, which held the title as the World’s Fastest Motorcycle from 1966 to 1970.